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القضاء على الفساد، مصر تحتاج إلى قانون حرية تناقل المعلومات
تمر مصر بمرحلة مهمة في سبيل تمكين المصريين من المشاركة في العملية السياسية. ولكي تستطيع مصر أن تحصل على الديمقراطية المنشودة، يجب أن ينعم المواطنون بحق الحصول على المعلومات بالحرية التي تتيح لهم مساءلة الحكومة. في ظل حكم مبارك تمتعت الحكومة بسرية كاملة في تعاملاتها، الأمر الذي أدى بدوره إلى تفشي الفساد في المؤسسات الحكومية مما أدى إلى ضياع كثير من موارد الدولة. إن عدم الإفصاح عن المعلومات يتعارض مع أحد أهم مبادئ الديمقراطية والشفافية. لذلك يجب على مصر أن تفعّل قانون ...
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![[Protesters stormed state security building on 5 March 2011 to uncover information collected in secrecy about activists and political opposition. Image by Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters]](/content_images/3/sm_egypt_security_01.jpg "[Protesters stormed state security building on 5 March 2011 to uncover information collected in secrecy about activists and political opposition. Image by Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters]")
Egypt is going through a period of enormous promise through citizen empowerment. For the first time in the country's history, citizens are electing their president through a relatively fair and free process. While there are genuine concerns about the conduct of the elections and the conditions governing them, the mood in the streets is electrifying, as people from all walks of life feel vested in their country’s future. Despite the bumpy post-Mubarak transition, Egyptians ...
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Mark Salah Morgan is a Counsel at Day Pitney LLP.
Sahar Aziz is Associate Professor of Law, Texas Wesleyan School of Law.
Both are members of the Egyptian American Rule of Law Association, a nonprofit organization committed to promoting rule of law through access to information. EARLA published “Freedom of Information Legislation: Best Practices for Egypt.”
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